How to format your references using the ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS). For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

[1]

Daniel Carpenter. 2012. Policy reform: Strengthen and stabilize the FDA. Nature 485, 7397 (May 2012), 169–170.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Shiv I. S. Grewal and Sarah C. R. Elgin. 2007. Transcription and RNA interference in the formation of heterochromatin. Nature 447, 7143 (May 2007), 399–406.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. R. Reinfelder, A. M. Kraepiel, and F. M. Morel. 2000. Unicellular C4 photosynthesis in a marine diatom. Nature 407, 6807 (October 2000), 996–999.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Xiao Long Deng, Tomohide Takami, Jong Wan Son, Eun Ji Kang, Tomoji Kawai, and Bae Ho Park. 2014. Effect of concentration gradient on ionic current rectification in polyethyleneimine modified glass nano-pipettes. Sci. Rep. 4, (February 2014), 4005.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

[1]

Laurence A. Belfiore. 2003. Transport Phenomena for Chemical Reactor Design. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

[1]

Alex Chengyu Fang and François Thierry (Eds.). 2016. The Language and Iconography of Chinese Charms: Deciphering a Past Belief System. Springer, Singapore.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Bo Andersson. 2011. Harnessing Handheld Computing – Managing IS Support to the Digital Ranger with Defensive Design. In Service-Oriented Perspectives in Design Science Research: 6th International Conference, DESRIST 2011, Milwaukee, WI, USA, May 5-6, 2011. Proceedings, Hemant Jain, Atish P. Sinha and Padmal Vitharana (eds.). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 62–76.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing.

Blog post

[1]

Elise Andrew. 2015. What Colors Were Dinosaur Eggs? IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/what-colors-did-dinosaur-eggs-have/

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

[1]

Government Accountability Office. 1999. Space Transportation: Status of the X-33 Reusable Launch Vehicle Program. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Tanmay Chandwasker. 2016. Comparison of ad-hoc on demand distance vector and enhanced-ad-hoc on demand distance vector on vehicular ad-hoc networks. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

[1]

James R. Oestreich. 2017. Lions in Winter Who Can Still Roar. New York Times, C5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [2, 4].
This sentence cites four references [2, 5, 7, 8].

About the journal

Full journal title	ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing
Abbreviation	ACM Trans. Access. Comput.
ISSN (print)	1936-7228
ISSN (online)	1936-7236
Scope